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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
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Keeping the Church
ON TRACK
Luke 1425-35
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The difference between innovative, effective
churches and ones that have plateaued and are in
decline, is that growing and effective churches
have a clearly defined purpose and
a strategy to achieve it.  
GEORGE BULLARD
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Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
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The Ministry Advancement Plan Tool
download at www.cmawdo.org
Facilitation Guide
A step by step guide to lead your team
through the development of a M.A.P.
Participant Workbook
A workbook in which you create a M.A.P. and
keep track of its progress.
Power Point Presentation
Complete with teaching notes.
District Coaching Support Upon Request
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
State Your Purpose
What is the main thing you are about?
Select Your Priorities
Where will you direct your efforts?
Structure Your Plans
How will you achieve your priorities?
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PURPOSE
Church Name
Ministry Year
PRIORITIES
GOALS
Additional Notes
The Layout of a Ministry Advancement Plan
Workbook page 16/17
A separate page is included in the workbook (page
19) to list the action plan for each goal. This
page can be reproduced for ongoing use.
Samples of a completed M.A.P. are included in the
workbook Church MAP - page 6 /
Ministry Specific MAP - page18
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Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
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Understand the two pronged approach to the M.A.P.
workbook design. It is identified by different
coloured emphasis throughout the process.
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Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Sense Your Passion
What are you hearing from God?
Passion
Reflect
What is the sunset picture you are seeing or
sensing right now about a bright and glorious
future for your church
What part is God willing to play to make this
picture a reality?
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TEA
BREAK
10 MINUTES
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
State Your Purpose
What is the main thing you are about?
In this session
Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
How to create a meaningful Purpose Statement
The Key to Keeping Your Purpose Alive
Team Project On Purpose
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
State Your Purpose
What is the main thing you are about?
The importance of having a clear purpose...
A clear purpose builds morale.  
A clear purpose reduces frustration.
A clear purpose focuses effort.  
A clear purpose assists evaluation. 
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
State Your Purpose
What is the main thing you are about?
Creating a Meaningful Purpose Statement
A broad, overarching direction for ministry.  
A brief and clear statement of purpose.  
A statement anchored in Scripture.  
A concise statement of what the ministry is
supposed to do, not how it will be done.   
Workbook page 8
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
State Your Purpose
What is the main thing you are about?
Reflect
Do you know your Purpose?
Share the story of how it came into being.
What will it look and feel like when you are
experiencing your purpose?
Workbook page 9
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TEA PROJECT
With all members participating, and only using
resources provided, build a structure that will
catch a ping pong ball dropped from above your
structure at a level of 5 feet.
You Have 10 Minutes to complete this Task
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TEA
BREAK
30 MINUTES
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Select Your Priorities
Where will you direct your efforts?
In this session
Understanding Priorities
Importance of Teamwork in selecting Priorities
Reflecting on your Priorities
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Select Your Priorities
AskWhere will you direct your efforts?
In Setting Priorities there are as many things
you need to stop doing, as there as there are
actions you need to start taking.  
Could you assign a person to be responsible for
this area of activity?  
Which 3-7 areas will best help us experience
(move us toward) our purpose in the coming year?  
Workbook page 10
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A House Divided Against Itself Will Fall (Luke
1117)
Building Strength between Team Members
Youre only as strong as your weakest link
LACK OF
Purpose Focus
Trust
Conflict
Commit
Account
Avoid Openness
Artificial Harmony
Lower Standards
Vague Decisions
PersonalFocusStatus/Ego
A Team Divided Within Itself Cannot Succeed
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
How do you practically Select Priorities?
As a team brainstorm and create an exhaustive
list of all of the potential priorities for
consideration in the coming ministry year.  
With the exhaustive list before them, have each
team member personally rank their top 7
priorities.  
Have someone read each priority option and keep
score as team members raise their hands for their
top 7 priorities  
Rewrite the list based on the scores received
(most votes 1, second most 2, etc)  
You now have your list of priorities!  
Workbook page 10
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Select Your Priorities
Where will you direct your efforts?
Reflect
Why is each priority area so important to you?
How will each priority allow you to see and feel
the outworking of your church purpose?
What values did you use in saying no
to other potential
priorities?
Workbook page 11
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TEA
BREAK
10 MINUTES
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Structure Your Plans
How will you achieve your priorities?
In this session
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals
Selecting Outcomes
Structuring Action Plans
Workbook page 12
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals
SPECIFIC Specific goals have a greater chance of
completion than general ones.  
MEASURABLE concrete criteria to help measure
their progress along the way.  
ACTION-ORIENTED Use action verbs to describe
required steps.  
REALISTIC represents what you are willing able
to accomplish. Do you believe it can be done?  
TIME-BOUND What is the timeframe?

 
Workbook page 12
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Structure Your Plan
How will you achieve your priorities?
Selecting Outcomes
What will it look and feel like when this goal is
completed? Select Two Outcomes for Each Goal
Why is the completion of this goal so important
to us?  
What part does God want to play in the successful
completion of this goal?
Workbook page 13
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Planning Together for the Future
Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan
Structure Action Plans
Consider the Six Ws when developing a plan  
WHAT do we plan to accomplish to meet our goal?
(review outcomes)  
WHEN does this need to be completed?  
WHO will be responsible to guide or achieve this
action?  
WHERE will the required activity take place?  
WHICH resources are needed to accomplish this
goal?

WHY is this the preferred action to achieve our
goal?
 
Workbook page 14-15
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Workbook page 15
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Structure Your Plans
Plan Your Work
WORK
then
YOUR PLAN
video illustration
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Developing a Ministry Advancement Plan